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单词 bogus
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bogus

They lure people to bogus websites where they enter their card details.But the claims are totally bogus.First it was bogus colleges.Meanwhile, the decline in student numbers over the past six years is largely due to the closure of more than 900 bogus colleges.But you are redirected to a bogus website.It is hoped they will also cut bogus compensation claims.Gang members submit bogus invoices for damage and sometimes treatment for personal injury to insurance companies.Illegal migrants and bogus asylum seekers poured in.An email that directs the recipient to a bogus website.The designation was introduced to weed out bogus colleges set up solely to sponsor economic migrants.The journalists set up a bogus lobbying company and offered to pay the three in return for access to government.Scouting seminars in hotels are a popular rip-off tactic used by bogus agencies.Thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite new laws to tighten controls on immigration.It was a bogus company, it was a bogus investment.Thousands of bogus students remain free to enter Britain despite controls aimed at tightening immigration.Watch out for emails asking you to fill in your personal details, or bogus websites.He called for honesty, adding that bogus claims may still get asylum with their own nationalities.COPS are hunting a bogus policeman who uses a car fitted with flashing blue lights to pull over speeding motorists.It is one part of the same populist anger that is commonly expressed about criminals, welfare fraudsters and bogus asylum seekers.The bogus film was used as a cover to smuggle the Americans out of Iran.But then'human rights lawyers had a go' and the law on bogus marriages was deemed illegal.We need to stop bogus marriages, crack down on colleges and make sure that the English language checks we carry out abroad are done properly.

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bogus

British English: bogus ADJECTIVE
If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
...their bogus insurance claim.
  • American English: bogus
  • Brazilian Portuguese: falso
  • Chinese: 伪造的
  • European Spanish: falso
  • French: bidon
  • German: falsch
  • Italian: falso
  • Japanese: 偽の
  • Korean: 가짜의
  • European Portuguese: falso
  • Latin American Spanish: falso

Chinese translation of 'bogus'

bogus

(ˈbəuɡəs)

adj

  1. [claim, evidence etc] 伪(偽)造的 (wěizào de)
(adjective) 
Definition
not genuine
bogus insurance claims
Synonyms
fake
The bank manager is said to have issued fake certificates.
false
He paid for a false passport.
artificial
The sauce was glutinous and tasted artificial.
forged
She was carrying a forged American passport.
dummy
Soldiers were still using dummy guns.
imitation
a set of novels bound in imitation leather
sham
The election has been denounced as a sham by world leaders.
fraudulent
fraudulent claims about being a nurse
pseudo (informal)
counterfeit
He admitted possessing and delivering counterfeit currency.
spurious
a spurious framework for analysis
ersatz
an electric fire with ersatz logs
phoney or phony (informal)
assumed
The articles were published under an assumed name.
Opposites
real
,
true
,
actual
,
genuine
,
authentic
,
dinkum (Australian, New Zealand, informal)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of artificial
Definition
made in imitation of a natural product
The sauce was glutinous and tasted artificial.
Synonyms
fake,
mock,
imitation,
bogus,
simulated,
phoney or phony (informal),
sham,
pseudo (informal),
fabricated,
counterfeit,
spurious,
ersatz,
specious
in the sense of assumed
The articles were published under an assumed name.
Synonyms
false,
affected,
made-up,
pretended,
fake,
imitation,
bogus,
simulated,
sham,
counterfeit,
feigned,
spurious,
fictitious,
make-believe,
pseudonymous,
phoney or phony (informal)
in the sense of counterfeit
Definition
pretended
He admitted possessing and delivering counterfeit currency.
Synonyms
fake,
copied,
false,
forged,
imitation,
bogus,
simulated,
sham,
fraudulent,
feigned,
spurious,
ersatz,
phoney or phony (informal),
pseud or pseudo (informal)

Nearby words of
bogus

  • bogged down
  • boggle
  • boggy
  • bogus
  • bohemian
  • boil
  • boil down to something

Synonyms of 'bogus'

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